We have created ZapC, a novel system for transparent coordinated checkpoint-restart of distributed network applications on commodity clusters. ZapC provides a thin virtualization ...
Abstract--The provision of Quality of Service in Grid environments is still an open issue that needs attention from the research community. One way of contributing to the provision...
A multiprocessor prefetch scheme is described in which a miss is followed by a prefetch of a group of lines, a neighborhood, surrounding the demand-fetched line. The neighborhood ...
Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic beha...
Several optimization techniques are hindered by uncertainties about the control flow in a program, which can generally not be determined by static methods at compile time. We pres...